10 Horror Movies With Terrifying Surprises
4. Peekaboo With Ben Gardner - Jaws
To this day, 46 years after Jaws first swam to the silver screen, the sight of Ben Gardner's head will send a shiver down the spine of many a horror hound.
Sure, the horror genre has clearly offered up far more gruesome sights than this in the subsequent years since Jaws' 1975 release, but there's something still utterly jarring about Richard Dreyfuss' Matt Hooper discovering the remains of local fisherman Gardner.
Whether it's the fact that the moment still remains terrifying, or maybe it's more the moment reminds us of how terrifying this was the first time around, the surprise discovery of Hooper is a standout moment of a true standout, cinema-changing movie.
So surprising is all of this to Hooper, of course, it causes him to drop the great white shark tooth he'd found embedded in the hull of a sunken boat. Without that definitive proof of a great white being responsible, uber-prick Mayor Larry Vaughn is able to brush those concerns under the rug and keep the beaches of Amity Island open to the public while a Carcharodon carcharias stalks the shoreline.